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Alone we are incomplete, that is why we seek another soul.
In Freud's work there is no lack of references to the couple and to marriage, however the most relevant allusions are those relating to object-choice: here Freud speaks of the future choice of a partner made on the basis of a resemblance to or contrast with the parents, that is to say of the projection of the internal image of the parent onto the partner (Giannotti, Giannakoulas 1985).
There is no doubt however that Freud paid little attention to relational questions in his writings on metapsychology, which therefore came to be regarded as a one body psychology (Carli 1981; Zavattini 1985) the scope of whose theoretical research remained confined to the investigation of the relationship between the individual mind and its sub-systems (Id, Ego, Super-Ego).
In this paper I do not intend to discuss the rights and wrongs of this